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Criterion
Four paper stations connect system purpose, quality goals, risk cards and focused investigation with a target and gap profile.
Architecture
LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews)
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
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Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
Purposedifferent
LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighHigh
Timedifferent
3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional90-180 min2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
1 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people3-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Lean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checksCoD Table, Prioritization SequenceProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan
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ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
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Operations
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
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Decision Making
Risk Matrix
Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
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8D Problem Solving